All Gerhard Mack articles
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PremiumVodafone Peoplewatch: Spanish shuffle underway as Chairman steps away
September 2023 update: Spain President António Coimbra will not renew his mandate, and will be replaced by the operator’s CEO, Mário Vaz.
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PeopleVodafone exec Anna Dimitrova exits for German fibre altnet
Deutsche Glasfaser names Dimitrova CFO, adding to ExCo populated with Orange, TDC, and Vodafone alumni.
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Peopleruhrfibre brings in another ex-Vodafone Germany exec
Ex-Vodafone exec Christian Klein joins ruhrfibre in double role as COO and CIO.
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Premiumruhrfibre goes Mack speed — innovative FibreCo bags ex-Vodafone Germany CTO as Chair
ruhrfibre to leverage Vodafone ties to strengthen existing partnership.
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PeopleVodafone Germany prepares for more exec exits
New CEO Rogge has another two senior vacancies to fill to accelerate German rebuild project.
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Strategy & ChangeVodafone Germany strategic shift forces exec changes
Dimitrova handed Strategy & Transformation remit, with Velthuis brought in to lead Finance. Exiting CTO Mack will not be replaced as OpCo mirrors Group’s split-structure TechCo vision. CEO Ametsreiter seeks transformation focus with fresh-faced executive team.
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PremiumVodafone people moves: leads named at scale up and engineering units
New unit established to draw together hunt and nurture unicorn startups, with Bento at the helm, while a unified European software engineering team installs Connelly at the top. Vacant Vodafone IoT Technology leadership filled by pair of promotions, with IoT solutions development also in the crosshairs elsewhere in the ...
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Strategy & ChangeVodafone centralising national tech functions for Europe platform union
In-country tech leadership to be extracted and taken over by Group, as part of broader, homogenisation-focused regional reorg. Top Group execs in London hope move will address longstanding frustration with fragmentation and bring efficiencies and speed. Some in OpCos might continue to have other ideas…
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PremiumVodafone goes big on LTE-M and man-to-machine comms
German debut suggests increasing Group enthusiasm for LTE-M, and leadership feeling that technology’s time is coming. CTO Mack describes the tech as the “next building block in our network”. OpCo highlights LTE-M use-cases around voice and mobility.
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PremiumVodafone Germany gets 1800MHz 5G ball rolling
Mack thinks ‘mid-band’ spectrum is ideally suited for large-scale 5G coverage in urban areas.
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Network & InfrastructureVodafone Ireland sends out a DSS
Dynamic spectrum sharing tech called upon again, to boost 5G coverage while new airwaves are freed up.